Word: ballot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be in the bag. The South liked him; the South liked him fine; North, East and West he left behind him faithful and fair-weather friends. But Candidate Farley left a doubt behind too: for when the U. S. voter is alone in the polling booth with his ballot and his God, he must satisfy his conscience that his X marks...
District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York, unopposed on the Republican preference ballot, polled 40,193 in 550 Cook County precincts...
...ballot that confronted Wisconsin voters was a complex maze. For Roosevelt there were two slates: one an anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...
Charles G. Rodman and Carroll Binder, Jr., whose names were accidentally omitted from the ballot, were appointed to the Jubilee and Smoker Committees, respectively...
...names of 34 Freshmen have been placed on the ballot, 30 through appointment by Harvey C. Taylor, Jr. '42 and Langdon p. Marvin, Jr. '41, student Council representatives; Kendric N. Marshall, secretary of the Union; and the Freshman Union Committee. The other four were nominated by petition...